Looking at your ssh log, the following looks suspicious:
> scp /var/local/torque/spool/49.ha.OU alleon at hal:/home/alleon\par\b0\par
the \'s in the path might be causing your problem. If you look futher down
the ssh log you see a lot of \par's that are confusing sshd. Why do you
have \'s in your path?
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